Tag Archive | "The Real Singapore"

Posted on 23 March 2016

Ex-The Real Singapore editor, Australian Ai Takagi, has been sentenced to 10 months’ jail on Wednesday, March 23, 2016, the day of Lee Kuan Yew’s one-year death anniversary.

The 23-year-old had concocted “scandalous, provocative and racy material” in a bid to increase TRS’ following and garner “enormous” advertising revenue.

The public prosecutor had initially intended to seek a 12-month jail term, but increased this to 14 months after realising Takagi was “devoid of genuine remorse” for manufacturing the seditious posts for profit.

In all, Takagi and her Singaporean husband, Yang Kaiheng, 27, had pocketed S$492,500 from December 2013 to April 2015. This sum of money, prosecutors said, was gained as part of their modus operandi via the selective publishing of doctored and “patently false” material on the now-defunct socio-political blog.

Yang faces similar charges but will challenge them.

For each count of sedition, Takagi faces up to three years’ jail, a fine of S$5,000, or both.

This real news was published on March 23, 2016 and can be found on Channel News Asia.

Posted on 08 March 2016

TRS readers angry that foreigners have come to Singapore to steal jobs and website.

Singaporeans from some walks of life, who like to blame foreigners for everything in Singapore, are feeling very fed-up.

This after they read in the news that the husband-and-wife duo behind The Real Singapore website are not really real Singaporeans.

The woman, Ai Takagi, 23, is a Japanese-born Australian.

Singaporeans who did not know that their voices were actually 50% Australian, said they were incensed as TRS has been revealed to be a website run by foreign trash.

Wai Guo Ren, a TRS reader, said this revelation has confirmed his suspicion that his funny way of speaking and writing was never his own doing but some foreigner’s fault: “Orh… So when we speak Singlish is actually Engrish mixed with Australian Engrish one lah. I see, neh say earlier.”

“Must be all the chao ang moh fault. Come to Singapore and pollute my Engrish and take away my job.”

“Now foreigners use a website to incite hatred in Singapore.”

Another TRS reader, Gong See Mee, said the reason TRS is half Australian is because FT come to Singapore and take away jobs as PAP let them because liberal immigration policy: “Now even TRS also cannot be run by True Blue Singaporeans! All the foreigners come to Singapore to steal our jobs!”

“Foreigners have even come and steal a Singaporean website to whack foreigners! They are depriving Singaporeans of their freedom of speech! PAPPIES rule SINKIES! Jobs for foreigners, NS for locals!”

“Foreigners now can commit sedition!”

However, other TRS readers who are more analytical, said the PAP government is to be blamed for not protecting TRS website from foreign trash infiltration, and as a result, letting the website become pro FT.

One TRS reader, Luan Luan Xiang, who felt this way, said: “As a result of the PAP doing a bad job protecting TRS, TRS has become pro-FT. This is the extent of the failure of the PAP economic growth-at-all-cost policy.”

“By focusing on growing the economy, Singapore has handed everything over to be run and profited by foreigners.”

“And no wonder TRS is so lousy and factually-inaccurate is because the website is run by a foreigner.”

Posted on 08 March 2016

1. There isn’t a single convenient platform to read stupid user-generated comments anymore

2. No longer can Singaporeans keep up with the latest falsehoods in Singapore

3. Civil servants from the various ministries no longer have simplistic stories to highlight during media monitoring, which means they will have to read more complex analyses from other outlets that are more time-consuming just so they can compile a report to submit to their superiors

4. Out of the blue, readers are left with a surplus of orphaned unused clicks in need of another website

5. Singaporeans did not get to see the arrest of the other administrators involved with the site

6. Singaporeans did not get to witness the authorities secretly and randomly blocking and unblocking access to The Real Singapore just to annoy the owners, making them think there are server problems when there is none

7. Did not give adequate warning beforehand to allow some of us to compile a list of the people who read, believed and shared The Real Singapore articles on Facebook in the past, so you know who to quietly judge in your mind

Posted on 04 May 2015

Singaporeans from all walks of life who are allergic to bullshit have come out strongly to send a message to the two The Real Singapore editors, 26-year-old Singaporean Yang Kaiheng and 24-year-old Australian Ai Takagi.

This after Yang, who was revealed to be a Singaporean holding on to Australian Permanent Residency status, had his application to leave Singapore for Australia approved by the Singapore courts on compassionate grounds.

One Singaporean, Nina Gan, said Singapore has shown exceptional tolerance for the duo’s antics over the years, especially now: “For all of his whinging and bitching about Singapore, comparing us to North Korea or some dictatorship, the courts and judge here still showed him sympathy to return to Australia to visit his ailing father, even though he is deemed a grave flight risk.”

“This just goes to show that at the end of the day, Singapore has freedom of compassion.”

“Actually, come to think about it, Singapore also has freedom of speech too. This is something The Real Singapore likes to go on and on about, having the right to air your views?”

“Well, since they want freedom of speech, here’s proof that Singapore has freedom of speech. This is how freedom of speech looks like visually, thank you very much.”

Posted on 04 May 2015

1. There isn’t a single convenient platform to read stupid user-generated comments anymore

2. No longer can Singaporeans keep up with the latest falsehoods in Singapore

3. Civil servants from the various ministries no longer have simplistic stories to highlight during media monitoring, which means they will have to read more complex analyses from other outlets that are more time-consuming just so they can compile a report to submit to their superiors

4. Out of the blue, readers are left with a surplus of orphaned unused clicks in need of another website

5. Singaporeans did not get to see the arrest of the other administrators involved with the site

6. Singaporeans did not get to witness the authorities secretly and randomly blocking and unblocking access to The Real Singapore just to annoy the owners, making them think there are server problems when there is none

7. Did not give adequate warning beforehand to allow some of us to compile a list of the people who read, believed and shared The Real Singapore articles on Facebook in the past, so you know who to quietly judge in your mind

Wai Guo Ren, a TRS reader, said he personally thanks Google for continuing to finance TRS’s operations by serving ads on their platform as it is easy to ignore the website’s bad behaviour as long as Google is not the one running afoul of the law: “Google’s philosophy is to ‘Do No Evil’. In the company philosophy page, they even stated ‘You can make money without doing evil’.”

“So, by not personally doing evil, such as promoting hatred through seditious postings, it is good that Google allows others to do evil instead.”

This view is also shared widely by others who say Google is in a win-win situation.

Another local, Zuo Huai Shi, said Google has its priorities right by continuing to ignoring the history of plagiarism committed by TRS and focusing only on business: “Google is such a big company with a base in Singapore that employs thousands of employees. It is important for Google to continue to take money from advertisers and serve ads on TRS, or else, how is Google going to pay their workers?”

“And it is not Google’s duty to ensure that TRS does not plagiarise or put out content that incites hatred in society. Google is too big a company to care about such kinds of things. As long as they make money every quarter and look like they are upholding freedom of speech because they are American, it doesn’t matter if Singapore society falls apart. Who needs society anyway?”

“Thank you Google for continuing to finance TRS and absolving yourself from blame.”

Posted on 18 February 2015

Singaporeans from all walks of life who are 50% Australian, have come out to advice the two people behind The Real Singapore website who were arrested by the police for posting seditious content online.

The two people arrested are Ai Takagi, 22, a Japanese-Australian and Robin Yang Kai Heng, 26, a Singaporean. Both are students in Brisbane.

Saying it is the only right thing to do for committing an editorial lapse, one TRS reader, Hor Yi See, said the two people arrested must commit suicide immediately as this will show that they are more principled than the PAP: “By committing suicide, Ai Takagi and Robing Yang Kai Heng will show Singaporeans that they walk the talk and not talk and talk and copy and paste content.”

“This will also show the PAP there are some principles worth dying for.”

Other Singaporeans who are half Australians also noted that it is the duty of the duo to perform hara-kiri as they shouldn’t have allowed a Singapore website for Singaporeans to be infiltrated by foreign talent trash.

Another TRS reader Ai Ron Nick, who is not related to Ai Takagi, said FTs who want to dabble in Singaporean affairs must be prepared to live up to local standards and lead by example: “Since Ai Takagi is of Japanese descent and hara-kiri is a Japanese practice, she must be more committed to this culture of killing oneself than Singaporeans. She must, in fact, lead by example.”

“After she commits hara-kiri, will she be allowed to comment on Singaporean affairs.”

Posted on 18 February 2015

TRS readers angry that foreigners have come to Singapore to steal jobs and website.

The Singapore Police has confirmed on Feb. 17, 2015 that two people behind The Real Singapore website have been arrested for sedition.

The duo, a Singaporean, 26 and an Australian woman, 22, were picked up “for posting remarks online that could promote ill-will and hostility among the different races in Singapore”.

Singaporeans from all walks of life, who until this very day did not know that their voices were actually 50% Australian, said they were incensed as TRS has been revealed to be a website run by foreign trash.

Wai Guo Ren, a TRS reader, said this revelation has confirmed his suspicion that his funny way of speaking and writing was never his own doing but some foreigner’s fault: “Orh… So when we speak Singlish is actually Engrish mixed with Australian Engrish one lah. I see, neh say earlier.”

“Must be all the chao ang moh fault. Come to Singapore and pollute my Engrish and take away my job.”

“Now foreigners use a website to incite hatred in Singapore.”

Another TRS reader, Gong See Mee, said the reason TRS is half Australian is because FT come to Singapore and take away jobs as PAP let them because liberal immigration policy: “Now even TRS also cannot be run by True Blue Singaporeans! All the foreigners come to Singapore to steal our jobs!”

“Foreigners have even come and steal a Singaporean website to whack foreigners! They are depriving Singaporeans of their freedom of speech! PAPPIES rule SINKIES! Jobs for foreigners, NS for locals!”

“Foreigners now can commit sedition!”

However, other TRS readers who are more analytical, said the PAP government is to be blamed for not protecting TRS website from foreign trash infiltration, and as a result, letting the website become pro FT.

One TRS reader, Luan Luan Xiang, who felt this way, said: “As a result of the PAP doing a bad job protecting TRS, TRS has become pro-FT. This is the extent of the failure of the PAP economic growth-at-all-cost policy.”

“By focusing on growing the economy, Singapore has handed everything over to be run and profited by foreigners.”

“And no wonder TRS is so lousy and factually-inaccurate is because the website is run by a foreigner.”